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Academic Standing
Academic Statement
Academic Transcript
Advanced Standing
Allocation Rule - course
Articulated Programs
Assessment
Assumed Knowledge
Australian Higher Education Statement (AHEGS)
Award
Bachelor
Blue Zone
Breadth
Campus
Capstone Course
Career
Class
Cognate Course
Co-major
Combined Degree Program
Commonwealth Supported Place
Concurrent
Core Course
Co-requisite
Course
Course Authority
Course Level
Course Sharing
Coursework
Credit Transfer
Cross-Faculty
Cross-Institutional Study

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Deferment / Deferral
Degree
Depth
Disciplinary Core
Discipline
Doctorate / Doctoral Program
Domestic Student (Local Student)
Double Counting
Double Degree
Double Major
Dual Award
EFTSL (Equivalent Full-time Study Load)
Elective
Enrolment Appointment
Examiner
Exclusion
Faculty
Fast-track Program
Foundation Course
Free Elective

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Gateway Course
General Education
Grades
Graduand
Graduate
Green Zone
Home Faculty
Honours
Institution
Inter-Faculty
International Student (Overseas Student)

Level
Local Student
Location

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Major
Mark
Masters
Minor
Non-award Enrolment
Offering
Overseas Student

PhD
Plan
Postgraduate Programs
Postgraduate Coursework
Postgraduate Research
Potential Graduand
Prerequisite
Prescribed
Prescribed Course
Prescribed Elective
Prior Stage
Prizes
Program
Program Authority
Program Structure
Referee
Research
Restricted Elective

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Satisfactory Academic Performance
Semester
Sequence of Study
School (Department)
Specialisation
Stage
Stream
Student Contribution Band
Student Contribution Charge
Student Contributions
Student Learning Entitlement (SLE)
Study Load
Subject
Substitution Rule
Supplementary Transcript
Teaching Period
Undeclared Major
Undergraduate
Unipass
Unit of Credit (UoC)
Upper Level Course

Weighted Average Mark (WAM)
Workload Expectation
ZPass

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Postgraudate Study

Postgraduate Research Study

Non-Award Study

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